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Fetal alcohol syndrome diagnosis

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>Small size and weight before and after birth (pre- and postnatal growth retardation); >Brain involvement with evidence for delay in development, intellectual impairment, or neurologic abnormalities; and >Specific appearance of the head and face with at least 2 of the following groups of signs:a.

Small head size (microcephaly); >b.

Small eyes (microphthalmia) and/or short eye openings (palpebral fissures); and >c.

Underdevelopment of the upper lip, indistinct groove between the lip and nose (the philtrum), and flattened cheekbones.

</LI></UL></LI></OL>For more information, see: Fetal alcohol syndrome.

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